Archive for the “hook” category

Customize WordPress login logo without a plugin

by Jean-Baptiste Jung on December 21, 2009

WordPress login logo looks nice, but sometimes you may want to change it, for example when building a site for a client. In that case, you can use a plugin, or simply take advantage of this cool hack.

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Customize WordPress login logo without a plugin

How to define your own dashboard logo

by Jean-Baptiste Jung on December 18, 2009

By default, the “W” WordPress logo is displayed on the top left side of the dashboard. If for some reason, you’”d like to add your own logo, just read this recipe.

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How to define your own dashboard logo

WordPress hack: Extend the body_class function

by Jean-Baptiste Jung on November 2, 2009

Introduced in WordPress 2.7 the body_class() function is extremely useful to style a particular post, page or subpage. But when we look at the subsubpages, the parent page ID is that of it’s nearest parent and not the ID of it’s top level parent. Let’s solve this issue.

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WordPress hack: Extend the body_class function

WordPress hack: Automatically insert author bio on each post

by Jean-Baptiste Jung on October 26, 2009

Using WordPress hooks, it can be very easy to modify WordPress variables to fit your needs. In this recipe, I’m going to show you how to use hooks to automatically insert the author bio after each post.

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WordPress hack: Automatically insert author bio on each post

Force the use of a specific WordPress theme

by Jean-Baptiste Jung on September 17, 2009

Did you know that in WordPress, the $theme variable control the apparence of your blog? In fact, its value is the name of your theme. In this recipe, I’m going to show you how you can switch themes using a simple code snippet.

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Force the use of a specific WordPress theme

WordPress trick: Disable plugin stylesheet

by Jean-Baptiste Jung on August 9, 2009

When activated, some plugins automatically ads their css stylesheet to your WordPress blog. This is great in most cases, but it is a lot cleaner to have all your css styles in one stylesheet. Here’s a hack to disable plugin specific stylesheets.

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WordPress trick: Disable plugin stylesheet